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- ↑ "PRODUCTION notes". The Australian Women's Weekly . National Library of Australia. 6 August 1980. p. 146 Supplement: FREE Your TV Magazine. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p30
- ↑ "Alan Burke interviewed by Bill Stephens in the Esso Performing Arts collection [sound recording]" (Podcast).
- ↑ Semmler, Clement (30 July 1980). "Semmler on Television". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 8.
